The 6-foot-1 Manziel, a redshirt freshman, threw for 3,419 yards and 24 touchdowns and ran for 1,181 yards and 19 more scores to help the Aggies to 10 wins for the first time since 1998. He is the third straight Heisman-winning quarterback to receive the honor, following Robert Griffin III and Cam Newton.

"I feel like as the year went on, I just learned the offense more and knew exactly where I wanted to go, instead of maybe evading the blitz and just taking off running for the first down instead of hitting a hot route or throwing it underneath to an open guy and doing things a lot simpler and cleaner," Manziel said.

The 4,600 yards of total offense Manziel gained in 12 games broke the SEC single-season record. The record was previously held by 2010 Heisman winner Newton, who needed 14 games to gain 4,327 yards.